Our Researchers.
The network of Malaysian researchers behind MYResearchGuide — spanning top institutions and labs around the world.
Jay Chooi
Co-Founder @ Robocurve (YC S26), MATS Research Fellow, IOAA Gold Medalist
Research: Covert influence between LLMs; AI risk assessment (UK AISI); robotics eval benchmarks; ML for astrophysics (CfA); parliament transcript digitisation (MOF Malaysia)
Jia Yu Lim
AI Engineer @ AI LENS
Research: LLM reasoning (ICLR 2026 workshop); CBCT image denoising; multimodal biometrics for mobile authentication
Joel Pang
MIT Summer Research Fellow, Caltech SURF Fellow, Shell Scholar, MyISEF Founder
Research: Photolytic & catalytic chemistry on Venus (Harvard); redox-dependent cryo-EM protein structures (Caltech); polymer hydrogels & nanodiamond synthesis
Nikhil J. Babani
Incoming SWE Intern @ PwC Malaysia
Research: Fusion reactor vertical stability control (UKAEA); SNR optimisation for bistatic radar indoor tracking; robotics
Zad Chin
Founder & CEO @ Anygraph, Adjunct Lecturer @ Asia School of Business, NeurIPS First-Author
Research: ML for breast cancer trajectory prediction (Dana-Farber); NeurIPS first-author; AI for audit infrastructure; founder of Project BAWE
Alden Goh
ISEF Medalist
Research: Cassava peel biosorbent for pharmaceutical wastewater removal (98.9% efficiency); ISEF project
Chuin Wei Tan
Researcher @ Harvard (MIR Group), TCAD Intern @ TSMC
Research: Deep-learning interatomic potentials (NequIP/Allegro); AI agent orchestration for physical sciences; orbital-free DFT
Dr. KamWoh Ng
Research Scientist @ Meta
Research: Discrete representation learning for retrieval and generation; video diffusion models; neural rendering (Kaleido ICLR 2026, VecGlypher CVPR 2026)
Faye Jong
Radiographer @ Brisbane Radiology, Executive Director @ Voyora Concierge, Secretary @ IAFR
Research: Post-mortem CT angiography in traumatic causes of death; forensic imaging
Henry Tan
Secretary General @ NAMSA, Yayasan Khazanah Global Scholar
Research: Monopsony labour economics modelling (Cornell ILR); portfolio risk analytics (Khazanah); education data analytics
Ian Lim Hee Lai
SWE Intern @ Hudson River Trading, ASEAN Scholar
Research: Natural language processing research; algorithms
Jaiyogesh Patel
Doctoral Researcher @ UM
Research: p53 biology in childhood cancers, with prior work in senescence, genetics, and respiratory health
Lai Wei Siang
UROP Researcher
Research: AI foundation models for survival analysis (UROP, paper under review at top ML conf); SEACrowd NLP contributor
Loh Juin Xian
ASEAN Undergraduate Scholar, NTU President Research Scholar
Research: Heterogeneous catalysis; low-emission fuel for transportation
Low Jian He
Researcher @ CVSSP (Google-funded), ex-AMD, ex-Intel
Research: Gloss-free sign language translation and sign spotting; SAGE tokenization framework
Melwin Cheng Choon Lei
Incoming Research Intern @ Osanni Bio
Research: Antibody engineering for cancer (Rao Lab, Stanford); glycobiology at Oxford
Mun Hong Fong
Previously @ MIT (Coley Group)
Research: ML for chemical reaction and mechanism prediction; FlowER (Nature 2025)
Prof. Kim Siang Khaw
Tenured Fellow @ Tsung-Dao Lee Institute, Tenured Associate Professor @ Shanghai Jiao Tong University
Research: Precision muon physics, dark-sector searches, muon technologies, and urban muography
Prof. Mathias Foo
Associate Professor in Control and Engineering Biology @ Warwick
Research: Dynamical systems and feedback control for plant regulation and synthetic biology
Prof. Nursakinah Suardi
Associate Professor, Registered Medical Physicist @ Universiti Sains Malaysia
Research: Photobiomodulation, medical imaging, radiation, cancer nanotechnology, and Alzheimer's models
Prof. Yuan-Sen Ting
Associate Professor of Astronomy @ Ohio State, Adjunct Scientist @ MPIA
Research: AI for stellar spectroscopy, galactic archaeology, cosmology, and autonomous scientific discovery
Saan Cern Yong
ISEF Top Award Medalist
Research: 3D-printed soft AI robots and vision-based rehabilitation systems
Shengze Yeoh
ISEF Top Award Medalist
Research: 3D-printed soft AI robots and vision-based rehabilitation systems
Waywen Loh
Immunologist @ Oxford
Research: IgA nephropathy disease models; innate immunity to LNP mRNA vaccines; renal therapeutics
